Piper Bayard shows how to use a real-life hero/heroine to inform your fiction (plus 7 lessons for deepening the characterization)

Piper Bayard shows how to use a real-life hero/heroine to inform your fiction (plus 7 lessons for deepening the characterization)
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Between new and established authors is an important writing milestone: Becoming. Karen DeBonis examines the importance of being an emerging writer and value of "becoming."
Writing Inspiration arrives like a lightning bolt and disappears like mist. Here are 13 ways our writing inspiration already surrounds us...if we're paying attention.
If you've ever thought of chucking your writing over the proverbial cliff, this post is for you.
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